The MC forgot the plot

一 TWENTY-FOUR 一

二十四 Mandarin ducks being beaten

Outstanding, smart and handsome—those are the qualities that Meng Jia Min found in her fiancee.

He will raise her into the sky; make her the most enviable woman in the eyes of her so-called sisters, and she would be released into this manor that held her back.

She is the victor and she will do anything to win.

"So that vixen still hasn't searched any man to for her seductress daughter?" She sneers, there was an idea of stretching their hands too far and not knowing their status. "Then I will gladly be the matchmaker then if she still couldn't find an appropriate one"

There was an evil smile on her face, one that she never thought would be the result of her frightening hatred over a lifetime.

"Here" she handed a gold ingot, it was placed heavily into the male servant's hands as his eyes glowed in greed for the money. "Go under the bridge where an old man calculates the fate of humans and give this letter to him"

"Yes miss" he bowed, there was only this letter and gold ingot as well as the promise of being rich.

The moment the male servant left, Meng Jia Min cast a knowing look to the personal maid of hers— one that has been with her for years.

"You know what to do"

In the garden, a plain-looking maid came out after sweeping off the leaves, she proceeds to dump all the leaves into the hole that would be burned by another servant and left.

A yellowish color distinctly different from the texture of a leaf yet still awfully resembles its color was hidden in plain sight.

Meanwhile, into the West pavilion where the Second Miss of the Prime Minister's manor is residing, there was a woman in slender figure with her back facing the window.

An amorous pair of eyes blinked gently to the letter placed on her white, slim fingers that seems to never touch hardship.

"Master He surely us getting all frivolous" she reprimands yet a calculating smile spread on her soft, unpowdered cheek. 

The letter was given to her personal maid and as the sure burned the letter into the ashes, her eyes burned in victory. Of course, she wasn't a fool, only a naive woman like Meng Jia Min would see a man that fickle to be her life-saving straw.

Meng Jia Yue was taught by Concubine Chu and has always held that lesson deep in her heart— that a woman may never trust an affectionate man and shall always leave a way out and held power to protect oneself.

He Lu Feng is just another three-legged man that is enamored by her persona of a delicate, kindhearted lady— away from the tumultuous, scheming empire.

"Miss, the maid from First Miss' yard came with a letter"

"Bring it to me"

A mole was planted into the yard of Meng Jia Min and it was a maid that has been with her for the last five years. It was a maid that she, Meng Jia Yue, managed to exchange with the real supposed maid that came from the Sima household.

'Meng Jia Min may be the legal daughter but what's to say after she takes away her fiancee?'

...

"What did you say?"

Eyes unbelievably wide, Meng Jia Yi looked at XiXi in horror.

"Miss, it was from Concubine Ban" XiXi explained once more and repeated. "Concubine Ban already holds the list of your potential partners"